Word: malthusian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question have been obscured. The countries in which population is increasing most rapidly are often those with the world's lowest standard of living. The improvements of modern medicine have cut the death rate greatly; people live longer, far fewer infants perish, and population growth seems to follow a Malthusian pattern of geometrical progression...
...centuries, had been going out from the walls of Harvard?" Determined that not one whit of Veritas be lost to the future, Sibley resolved to write such a record. His project: to write a biographical sketch of every man who ever went to Harvard. Serenely oblivious to the Malthusian truth that Harvard men beget sons who go to Harvard, and that a long, geometric progression of begats had already outbegotten his best efforts to catch up. Historian Sibley set to work. He was confident, he wrote, that although his research might turn up "cases of iniquity which may have escaped...
...practice and techniques of death control have far overtaken the practice and techniques of birth control," Stamp told his audience, as he outlined the Malthusian problems involved due to the unequal distribution of land among the nations of the earth...
Many books by neo-Malthusian prophets of doom have attempted to answer these questions. Most of them have been superficial, emphasizing minor and easily corrected threats to man's food supply, such as erosion of farmlands. Others have ignored the enormous possibilities of man's scientific techniques. Brown's The Challenge of Man's Future (Viking Press; $3-75) is in a different class. Geochemist Brown of CalTech is thoroughly at home in the tangle of sciences that bear on man's future on earth. He is also at home in history and sociology...
This is still the pattern, says Brown, for that part of the human race which is still in the agricultural stage. Only the industrial one-third of the world's population escapes the Malthusian trap. Dr. Brown is not sure that it will escape for long...